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Dan Flowers

 
Dan Flowers

My music is guitar based acoustic and electric instrumental, as well as with vocal when the time is right, original, and in various genres ranging from blues, t

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Side of Heartache

Cadillac Desert - Dan Flowers - electric guitar, lead vocal; Jeanie Flowers - acoustic guitar, vocals; Jim DeFazio - bass, vocals; Mark Tusler - drums, vocals
Band/artist history
This is going to take a while, so I'll have to get back on that one with you. :-) It started over 30 years ago on my back porch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and is still moving on...
Have you performed in front of an audience?
It's been known to happen. In fact, I've played live for most of my musical career starting back in school and immediately thereafter. I've played clubs, barn dances, private gatherings, and concerts in theatres from San Diego to Berkeley, from the Pacific coast and inland to Bakersfield - and many points in between. I love the stage. Be it open air, or even an intimate coffeehouse, a university theatre or concert hall seating thousands. I lay it out on the stage with every note I play. And, I've been invited to play at church from time to time - that is an amazing place to let go of your shackles, to express everything you have inside. Talk about a spiritual experience. Music is a great gift well worth sharing with the world.
Your musical influences
Anything guitar centered has always caught my attention. When I met Jeanie Flowers she was known as Jeanie Cavenee, and she was sitting on the lawn playing Classical Gas on the 12 string guitar. Since that day back in 1974, Jeanie has been a significant influence on me, I couldn't get enough of her, and so I married her. She rocks on the guitar, and her voice touches my soul. Beyond that, there's Joe Satriani, Eric?s Johnson & Clapton, Santana, David Gilmore, Steven Hackett, Joe Walsh, Jerry Douglas, Steve Warner, Stevie Ray Vaughan - who my son Vaughan is named for, Jeff Beck, Jeff Skunk Baxtor, Larry Carlton... the list just doesn?t end... Al Di Miola, Dave Mason, Steve Howe... no, it just won?t end... Ry Cooder... Okay, I?ll stop now, but not because my list ended.
What equipment do you use?
I started with the acoustic guitar and later moved onto electric. Beginning in 1977 I played a 1967 Martin D-18 for 25 years, but alas on stage it's sweet tone was too delicate for band situations. So, my stage acoustic became a Takemine acoustic cutaway with active PU system. I rather like this guitar, but it's not my old Martin. :-( My central electric guitar is a Carvin. I played Les Pauls for the first 10 electric years. Then I opened for Steve Warner in 1985 and discovered that he had the sound I'd been searching for in his Stratocaster. That's when I got my first Strat which I played until 2000 when I stumbled onto a used Carvin and fell in love with the neck and fingerboard: Great action with the neck just a tad wider at the nut for more finger clearance. The fingerboard has a flatter radius for cleaner double-stop bends which also makes it great for playing slide - just a real nice feeling guitar. And, it weighs about a ton less than a Les Paul. I did however change the PU setup. It now sports a pair of Semour Duncan Hot Stacks at the neck and middle pickup positions, and a Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker at the bridge. You would not believe the added harmonic overtones with that pickup. I love it. The guitar came with a Wilkinson tremolo system which I later replaced with a L.R. Baggs X-Bridge [6 acoustic transducer saddles for acoustic sound] But, not really acoustic - nothing but an acoustic guitar sounds like an acoustic guitar. And, even those can be a bare to reproduce sounding good live unless you have a master audio tech running the board with the right gear. Then you're set. [There will be those who take exception to that last statement - I've been wrong before. :-)] Anyway, the Baggs setup allows for an added dimension to the sound, so it's all good. Lastly, I traded off some gear and picked up a used Roland GR-50 guitar synth module with GK-2a midi pickup which is attached to the face of the Carvin. And, after drewelling for years until I could scrounge up the cash to get one, I added the Roland VG-88 guitar synth floor pedal. By mixing and switching back and forth I can reproduce just about any sound combination I choose - as long as I have enough time to work out the set up. However, the bottom line is that I just want to play the guitar. So, most of the time I plug straight into a small pedal board consisting of an Earnie Ball volume pedal, compressor, distortion, stereo delay, and stereo chorus - all Boss by Roland. Those go into my MusicMan RD112/100 with a single 12" speaker which I traded for used back in 1983 - it still kicks after all this time. My philosophy of guitars and gear: Any guitar that ever brought you joy for even a minute, don't ever let it go. You will regret it one day... and in some case that regret will last you the rest of your life... no matter what you got in return... with little exception. I miss all three of my Les Pauls', my old Gibson ES 345 that is now played by Bruce Johnson of the Beach Boys who once said that it was one of the best guitars he'd ever owned. Then there was my old Fender Coronado II - my first real guitar - that even though I was told by a dozen different guitar "experts" was a piece of crap, it was a great guitar. I'll never get over my old 1954 Telecaster with the custom Phil Kabiki neck along with the Gibson humbucker pickup in the neck position and a HipShot B-bender tailpiece - the best blues guitar I ever had, and finally my old Martin. I played that guitar for 25 years and when it couldn't make it on stage any more, I had to let it go to get the cash I needed to update my setup. I totally dig my current set-up, but I will never forget that old Martin.
Anything else?
Our current ambition is to finish setting up our home recording studio. It is Mac based using MOTU Digital Audio Interface and Mackie to input the signal sources. We have a slue of ancient keyboards that have great sounds - Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, U-110 and Proteus Modules as well as a bunch of other gear that when set up right work pretty darn well. Jeanie also has a site, as well as a sight of our collaborations. Between the two of us we've written several hundred songs which cover a ridiculous range of styles. It is our plan to produce a series of CDs which reflect cohesively each of those styles and genres both independently, as well as collaboratively. We hope you like it.
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